RO Systems: Pro's and Con's Revealed for Home and Home Brewing!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- Are you considering a reverse osmosis system for your home or home brewery? In this video, we dive deep into the pros and cons of reverse osmosis systems to help you make an informed decision.
🔍 What We'll Cover:
Water Purity: How RO systems remove up to 99% of contaminants.
Better Taste and Odour: Enjoy fresher, cleaner water.
Use in Home Brewing: Achieve consistent and great-tasting beer.
Cost-Effectiveness: Save money over time compared to bottled water.
Water Waste: Understand the environmental impact.
Mineral Removal: Learn about the downside of stripping beneficial minerals.
Initial Cost: What you need to know
Filtration Speed: The reality of the slow filtration process.
Whether you're looking to improve your drinking water or perfect your home brew, we cover all the essential points.
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Thank you for clarifying the toys that you clean .......
You’re welcome 😊
Great video, very informative 👏
Northwest rural here, our tap water is 34ppm and the well water is what we normally use to brew
Cracking video mate
Love my RO system! I just like starting from scratch with my water profile. Great video! 🍻
Truly an excellent and thoughtful video. Exceptional work. Cheers!
Thank you 👌
Installed one around 3 months ago, done 4 brews since and there is a huge difference in quality, worth every penny
That’s reassuring! thank you! 🍺
I invested in an RO system for brewing a couple of years back. I think it was a good choice. Even tea and coffee look and taste different. Also heard RO is great for cleaning glass particularly.
My incoming water is usually over the 300ppm mark, up until recently the output was 0ppm, that’s creeped up a few points as the filters are getting older.
For anyone looking into buying a system, it may be worth touching on the fact the filters don’t last forever and will need to be replaced from time to time.
Other than that, I’d say you have pretty much covered most of the points I’d see as being relevant.
I keep my “waste” water in a separate vessel and use some of that to clean my equipment after brewing, the rest either goes in a water butt for the gardening or straight onto plants. I’ve seen US brewers use that water to fill their washing machines too (top loading machines unlike what we have in other parts of the world)
I had thought of putting something together which would store the waste water in a hot water tank, or plumbing in to fill up the toilet cistern.
Not everyone will want to go to that level, but I imagine most of us home brewers like tinkering and coming up with “inventions” all the time
Thanks for the comment! I agree with the tea and coffee point, forgot to mention that one 😂 Cheers
Great Video, but for me my beer is very much improved in taste with RO water I buy up the road @ about 3p per ltr at Spotless Water in bulk. I did look into an RO System but did not want the hassle and the up front cost. I would not want to go back to council pop
I use spotless water too, it's a very quick and easy system. Also only around 30p a brew with an account.
Interesting to hear your points and also very nice as a swede to see that you ride a Husaberg!🍻
Love the Berg! Rebuilt it a couple of years ago and it’s an awesome machine! 👌
Proper water treatment is a must. My tap water is around 400-500 ppm of TDS. I don't use RO with waste water, but rather some resin to do a complete desalination (then with wasted resin).
The water input pipe. I can’t remember where I heard it maybe The hop addition, but as large a diameter pipe as close to the input to the RO system as possible helps with the flow and speed. I used it for mine and it is great 👍. The tds meter from where did you get it and was it expensive? Also how accurate is it?
Cheers for the video Griffo. I used to buy Tesco's Ashbeck bottled water as I live in a hard water area. I purchased a 4 stage Vyair unit. About £50.00.
Works on mains water pressure, so takes a while. But as you say, beer results are more consistant. I brew mostly in the warmer months so the waste waters the garden. RO units are said to work slower in cold weather as the holes in the membrane contract. I like mine, a pumped version sounds good though.....
Thanks for the insight Peter 🙌
I have a cheap RO system but now I’m jealous of yours! Damn it more money 😟
I already have fantastic water where I live here in Norway, so really the only pro for me would be having a consistent starting water for brewing.
It would be nice if you could go into more detail on the RO system.
I used to run a basic RO system for my fish tanks, it didn't have a pump on it and was much slower with a lot more waste than you're producing.
I’m thinking of investing too, with it taking so long to fill G40 etc how do you leave it go and not overfill?
Great video, informative and entertaining as always. I’m going to get one of these soon as I am convinced it's worth it. One thing perplexes me however; The Vyair website states ‘Never use Deionisation resin if you are intending to drink the treated water’ Is this the resin in the last stage? Should I be ordering this stage?
Thank you, the resin I have is MB-115 colour change resin and can’t see any such warning, it comes in a bag so you have the choice to fill the filter or not 👍
@@HomebrewGriffo Ok thanks for the reply. keep up the good work!
I generally dilute my tap water with RO to get my HCO3 levels in the right place and then add salts to get to my final profile.
That’s a good approach! thanks for sharing 👍
I considered getting one of these but decided to use a local 'spotless water' station in the end and it only costs me £2 for 45 litres of RO water
I was having Beer scale issues in my SS Conical. I set up the RO system and now the extra calcium in my well water is removed and beer scale issues are gone. Also, the ability to nail a water profile is excellent.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the insight to the beer scale - time will tell for me!
Where did you buy your RO system?
I missed the close up of it, I see it's a Vyair 4 stage system!
I find debris in my water, especially when I fill the kettle up to 50l. Should there be debris from my tap water?
Definitely not, should contact your water supplier or at least fit a filter 👍
Spotless water, 40 litres for around £1.20 and no waste. If you refer a few people they end up paying you. I started with £20, have used around 4-500l and am now £50 in credit!
Dude, I might've heard your first comment wrong, hut please don't give your 'family' RO water
Could you elaborate on your concern? What can possibly be wrong with consuming purified then re-mineralised water?
@@HomebrewGriffo The main concern is a lack of chlorine once filtered. "Pure" water is a haven for bacteria, it's the reason that chlorine is added to tap water. Absolutely no issue if you're boiling it for beer/tea/coffee etc. But if its left stored for any period then any bacteria it came into contact with (ie from the collection tank) will multiply very quickly unhindered, particularly in warm weather.
Thanks for the info, the water isn’t stored for long and is kept in a dispenser chilled to 5 degrees in a fridge - I assume that reduces the risk and rate of bacteria growth 👍